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pd editorial: Congress should put a stop to mountaintop-removal mining - an editorial Saturday, September 08, 2007 About 20 years ago, coal mine operators looking for a cheaper way to extract Ap palachia's riches hit on an approach that is every bit as sinister as it sounds: mountaintop removal. Think of it as strip mining - already an environmentally destructive enterprise - on steroids. First, the mining company clear-cuts a mountaintop. Then it uses explosives and bulldozers to flatten the top and expose seams of coal. The dirt and other debris are dumped in nearby valleys and, quite often, into streambeds - Washington estimates that between 1985 and 2001, 724 miles of waterways were buried by mine waste. Whole communities are sometimes uprooted. When the mine is exhausted, the companies are supposed to reclaim and replant the land, but that usually produces excess debris and almost never succeeds in restoring the contours and, yes, the majesty, of an Appalachian mountaintop. ... http://www.cleveland.com/editorials/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1189240992161160.xml&coll=2

pd editorial: More at http://www.cleveland.com/editorials/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1189241723161160.xml&coll=2

pd: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1189242735161160.xml&coll=2

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I just remembered another facility - Cleveland Public Auditorium.

There were 6 non-football events that I can recall this year at the stadium. In the past there has been a multi-day bridal event in the spring plus several homecomings/proms... not sure if it happened this year. The restaurant/club is often rented out for private parties too.

I'll post the latest renderings next week... if I remember. The Planning commission also approved the campus's Euclid Ribbon Landscape Plan in schematic design form.

I was wondering how long it would take for somebody to notice that?

What about future sports facilities and those from time gone by?

Still looking.

Sounds good to me.

Well, put, Mr. Masek. Much better response then I was going to give last night when I first read the critique. BTW, I saw the drawings for proposed West 150th/Puritas Station. Very nice. I love how there is the commuter component and the residential component. Any chance you can post the renderings here? I was not able to secure a copy.

How do you remember all of this stuff?

Hey, mr. smiley is back.

Thanks for posting this. I wonder why there is nothing about this in the mainstream media? Nothing on CNN or Drudge.

Very exciting. Can't wait to see them. So if the velodrome is built, and CSU's Diving Pavilion, plus Wolstein's soccer stadium, we should have a decent infrastructure in place to host the Olympics... or something similar.

Found at a gas station on West 25th Street:

The question is, are you going to be able to sleep through the relative quietness of the west side when you move?

I'm in complete agreement here (and with X). A project on this site would not only kill any chance of Pesht making it to the waterfront, it would be another misguided attempt by the city to build for tourists, and not its own residents. A CC here would complete the wall stretching from Burke along the lake to the river. You'd have the 9th st. pier and Voinovich Park for real public access. Every other place you'd have to pay to enter: Rock Hall, GLSC, Browns Stadium, the CC. Where's the street-level retail? Where's the residential? Where's the port? And as nice as the renderings for that building look, the last thing we need is the last, best piece of waterfont land taken up and used for a monstrous, non-public building surrounded by useless, decorative "greenspace". Thankfully, the time it would take the port to move makes this site a non-starter. Concerning sites within UC, the only site that really jumps out at me is the proposed "west quad" space case was going to partner with FCE on. Pushing aside the issues of highest and best use, connectivity, development spin-off and all that jazz; where does all that potential truck traffic into and out of UC get routed from the interstates? I don't think this baby goes to UC. It's between TC and the existing CC site. I support the TC site; but I'd really like to see a better design for that bldg before I sign off on it. :-D Maybe its just my computer (and everyone I use), but the plans I am looking at SHOW HOUSING IN THE PROJECT. I should call my tech guy to get my screen fixed... oh, and my scanner, since I scanned the images... oh, and the printer, who printed the planning study. Perhaps I just need glasses. :-D

Only for its liquor selection

^So maybe we should buy ad space from them to put our new logo on.

Hey, hey, hey. I'm just filling in the hole grasscat left. Don't shoot the messenger (especially a very fragile, loosing-his-mind messenger).

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